Taking us from the self-proclaimed 'radical socialism' of the Greater London Council, through his two terms as Mayor of London and his 2012 candidacy against Boris Johnson, Livingstone recounts his many battles against privatization, pollution and Tory politicians. --From publisher description.

Ken Livingstone is a British politician who served as the Leader of the Greater London Council from 1981-1986, as MP for Brent East from 1987 to 2001, and as the first elected mayor of London from the creation of the office in 2000 until 2008.